A police official was killed in Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday when suspected militants detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
“Unknown miscreants planted a bomb at a roadside in the jurisdiction of Faqirabad police station,” said police officials.
Police officials added that the objective was to target Qari Asghar, a local resident, over old enmity.
A police official, who was on duty outside the residence of a judge, was killed in the explosion while four other people were injured in the explosion.
In a separate attack a deputy superintendent of police, from the counter-terrorism department (CTD), was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Dayal road area of DI Khan.
The attackers escaped unharmed after the attack.
The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been on the front line in Pakistan's war on terror, and has suffered from a low-intensity conflict for years.
The conflict has claimed thousands of lives during the last decade, and has been punctuated by some high-profile and high-visibility attacks.
A policeman was killed and five civilians injured in a roadside blast in Peshawar’s Bashirabad area on Thursday .
SSP Operations Abbas Marwat said a local identified as Qari Asghar was ‘targeted’ in the attack, which also injured five passersby, including police constable Furqan who later succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
“This man who was attacked had personal enmity and was possible the prime target,” the SSP said.
It is possible that Qari Asghar was the target of the attack, ASP Faqirabad Wasim Riaz told The South Punjab News , adding it was an IED blast.
The bomb disposal squad said the IED had two kg of explosives.
“Qari Asghar claimed he was the target as he had a personal enmity but we can’t be certain [at the moment],” the official said, adding the constable was deployed at the residence of Judge (retired) Shah Jehan. He was on a bike when he came under the attack.
The injured were shifted to the the Lady Reading Hospital, where Furqan succumbed to his injuries.
